home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Fergus Duniho's ToDo list for the XDME Excelsior Suite:
-
- · Automatic outline indenting.
-
- · Learn option for spell-checking.
-
- · Paginate should recognize some sort of special footnote symbol and insert
- footnotes where appropriate.
-
- · Spreadsheat mode.
-
- · Add wordcounting and formerly registered features to AlphaSpell after I
- learn what changes have been wrought in C++ by ANSI.
-
- · Fix the spell-checking macros to take advantage of AlphaSpell's ability
- to use multiple dictionaries.
-
- · Make AlphaSpell pack and read dictionaries as lisp-like lists. E.g.
-
- (a (b (acus e l (e (r))))) would represent the words (abacus abe able
- abler)
-
- No, that won't do. Each part has to complete a full word. But "abl" is not
- a full word. Try (a (b (acus e (le (r))))) for the words (a ab abacus abe
- able abler). That should work. A space will mean the end of a word. A
- "(" will mean the beginning or continuation of a word. A ")" will mean
- the end of a word and of a list. Functions ought to operate recursively
- on these lists. These lists will be sort of like representations of
- tries in a file, but they will not be accessed as tries.
-
- It may be even better to do something like this: (a (b (acus e l(e (r))))).
- In this, a word doesn't finish unless it hits a space or a ")". A "("
- immediately following a letter indicates nothing more than a continuation
- of a word.
-
- But what about spaces between strings in a list? OK, let space be the
- word end indicator, let "(" be the continuation indicator, and let ")" be
- a list and word end indicator.
-
- Maybe I ought to load the entire dictionary into a trie and write the trie
- to a file. That would seem to be the most efficient way to do this.
- Using linefeeds in place of spaces would make the dictionary more
- readable without making it larger. Or how about linefeeds in place of
- ")" and "-" in place of "("? That might work better.
-
- · Make AlphaSpell add words to list-dictionaries without having to unpack
- them first.
-
-
-